Catherine Morland
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Catherine Morland is the heroine of Jane Austen's 1817 novel Northanger Abbey. A modest, kind-hearted ingénue, she is led by her reading of Gothic literature to misinterpret much of the social world s
Catherine frightening herself with “Mysteries of Udolpho”
Persuasion (novel)
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Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death, although the title page is date
Title page of the original 1818 edition
An illustration by Hugh Thomson of a moment in chapter three, when Sir Walter regards Admiral Baldwin and asks Sir Basil Morley, "In the name of heaven, who is that old fellow?"
Elliot and Musgrove family trees in Persuasion
Cassandra Austen Jane Austen hires